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- I ifi/Q .D riti -J. lKELSO, OF FREEDOM, MSSOUR, ASSiGNOR' T() HMSELF AND ERNEST QUAS'.

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Lette/re 'Peroni No. 91,345, dated June 15, i869.

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- invented a new and useful Improvement `in Gunu Carriages; and'I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable othersskilled in the art to ina-lie and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification.

.This invention relates to improvements in gun-can riages, and apparatus for training the some, designed to provide an arrangement whereby the gun may foe trained to any desired direction more readily than can be .done by the means at present' in use.

The inventionA consists in a carriage swivelled at each end upon supports, arranged in ways or on trncks crossing each other al; right angles, in such a manner that as the said supports are moved forward or'bacl; in their respective ways, the gun may be turned to axy required direction, as hereinafter more fully spe ci ed.

grooves for one set of runners being et right angles to those of the other.

The drawing represents a perspective view of my- The runners may be provided with rollers im reduce the friction, or the rollers may be arranged in the bottom of the grooves..

Instead of the grooves, rails may he employed, and

,the runners fitted lto therails, or provided with *wheee to rim thereon.

By this arrangement, when one end of the carriage ie moved away from .the centre of the foundation, the other end will be brought towards it, but from n direc tion at right angles to that in which the receding ond moves. lhc movement oi .the receding enel will he arrested when the other arrives at the centre; sind if the latter he moved across the centre, and away from it in the opposite direction, that end which was recedl ing will be brought back tovrarde the centre.

This motion changes the direction of' the gun, and may be continued, to cause the gun io point in all directions horizontally, ns will bc readily understood,

,and furnishes a very simple means for tminingheavy guns, whether on shipboard or in fortifications.

Any preferred form or arrangement of the enpports may he employed.L

Having thus described my invention,

I claim, as new, and desire to secure by Lettere atennihe carriage. swivelled or otherwise mounted upon supports et cach end, arrangedl to traverse in grooves or upon ways at right angles to eecli other, solisten tielly as specified.

J. R. KELSO.

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